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Berthold Akzidenz Grotesk Bold3/17/2021
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Anonymous designer, Bauer Co. and H. Berthold AG, 1898. At this time, the two foundries were in the process of becoming one company. For about 20 years it was attributed to Theinhardt, but this has recently been proven untrue. Dan Reynolds The very first sans serif typeface was published in England, ca. It did not create waves in typography immediately, but the use of sans serifs would increase over time. The first sans serif sold in Germany was introduced by the typefoundry inside Eduard Haenels Magdeburg printing-house in 1833. The matrices for this Neuste Titel-Versalien, Zehnte Sorte were imported from Caslon Livermore in London. Like other early British sans serifs, this approximately 36-pt face was an all-caps design. The first book composed entirely in upper- and lowercase sans serif types was only published in 1900. Still outr for whole books, German typographers were by then finally beginning to regularly consider sans serifs for long texts, or publications intended for immersive reading. Those designers were just as likely to specify new geometric-style sans serifs like Futura as they were older typefaces, like Schelter Gieseckes late-nineteenth-century Breite magere Grotesk. Typographically, it took a long time to get to something like the ubiquity that Helvetica enjoyed among Western European and North American graphic designers in the 1960s. Helveticas popularity eventually became so widespread that as Gary Hustwit presented in his 2007 documentary film Helvetica its use represented a cultural milestone. No earlier typeface had ever experienced that kind of hold on the market, at least not in Germany. In English, this title would be Festivals of life and art: A consideration of the Theater as the Highest Cultural Symbol. Anonymous design that was probably developed by typefoundry employees, Schelter Giesecke, ca. Eduard Hoffmann and Max Miedinger, Haas, 1957. While Helvetica was not simply a reworking of Akzidenz-Grotesk, its initial development as Neue Haas-Grotesk in Switzerland reflected, in part, the popularity that Akzidenz-Grotesk had begun to enjoy in Western European graphic design during the immediate postwar years. As a family of typefaces, Akzidenz-Grotesk was a work-in-progress. Bauer Co. in Stuttgart and Berthold in Berlin published its very first weight together in 1898, but it was only in the 1950s that the typefaces use began to take off. Although Akzidenz-Grotesk seems to have inspired similar designs beforehand, such as Venus and Ideal-Grotesk themselves the basis for Monotype Grotesque Series 215 and 216 and perhaps even Titania and Urania, something is fascinating about the number of neo-grotesques produced in the 1950s and 60s. In addition to the above-mentioned Neue Haas-GroteskHelvetica, that wave of new designs included Folio, Univers, and Record Gothic as well as many others. Akzidenz-Grotesk and Helvetica are often compared with each other, but Univers represents a far more interesting counterpoint for Akzidenz-Grotesk. No other designs better illustrate the changes in the ways typefaces were developed between the 1890s and the 1950s, or even between the 1890s and today. The story of the young Adrian Frutigers development of Univers at Deberny et Peignot has often been told: from the beginning, he conceived of Univers as a family of typefaces, with multiple weights and widths. Twenty-one styles were part of Universs initial release, and each was designed according to the same letterform scheme. Today, a term like systems design could be applied to the project. Akzidenz-Grotesk, on the other hand, is not as harmonious a family. While Univers was the work of Frutiger and his assistants in Deberny et Peignots design studio, Akzidenz-Grotesks various styles were produced by anonymous employees at several typefoundries in different historical times. Anonymous designer, Bauer Co. H. Berthold AG, 1898. At this time, the two foundries were in the process of becoming one company.
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